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Only Quotes by John Muir
- Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and…
- We all travel the milky way together, trees and men; but it never occurred to me until this storm-day, while swinging in the wind, that…
- Tell me what you will of the benefactions of city civilization, of the sweet security of streets-all as part of the natural upgrowth of man…
- In nothing does man, with his grand notions of heaven and charity, show forth his innate, low-bred, wild animalism more clearly than in his treatment…
- My meals were easily made, for they were all alike and simple, only a cupful of tea and bread.
- I made these Sierra trips, carrying only a sackful of bread with a little tea and sugar, and was thus independent and free....
- Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed,-chased and hunted down as long as fun…
- In studying the fate of our forest king, we have thus far considered the action of purely natural causes only; but, unfortunately, man is in…
- Only spread a fern-frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.
- Thus godlike sympathy grows and thrives and spreads far beyond the teachings of churches and schools, where too often the mean, blinding, loveless doctrine is…
- I was a few miles south of Louisville when I planned my journey. I spread out my map under a tree and made up my…
- Wilderness is not only a haven for native plants and animals but it is also a refuge from society. Its a place to go to…
- I must return to the mountains-to Yosemite. I am told that the winter storms there will not be easily borne, but I am bewitched, enchanted,…
- Wander a whole summer if you can. Thousands of God's blessings will search you and soak you as if you were a sponge, and the…
- To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow of silence, there…
- I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found.
- Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets our steps prevents…
- We all flow from one fountain- Soul. All are expressions of one love. God does not appear, and flow out, only from narrow chinks and…
- Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body…
- The mountains are fountains not only of rivers and fertile soil, but of men.
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